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Risk Pools Programme (RPP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support a parametric (index-based) weather risk insurance pool that will provide participating African countries with predictable, quick-disbursing funds with which to implement pre-defined contingency response plans in the case of a drought.
UK Humanitarian Support in Palestine.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The “Humanitarian Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs)” programme aims to improve the resilience of households to mitigate the consequences of the protracted protection crisis in the OPTs; save lives during emergency spikes, for example a flare up in violence; and prevent a further deterioration in the humanitarian situation until a more durable political solution is reached.
Sub-National Governance Programme -II (SNG-II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
SNG-II supports improved public financial management to enhance basic service delivery for the poorest and most vulnerable populations, including women, girls, and persons with disabilities. It also aims to strengthen citizen perceptions of government performance. The programme operates across four thematic areas: Planning and Reform Budgeting and Transparency Fiscal Space Innovations Implementation spans the federal level and the provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and Sindh.
Productive Social Safety Net Programme in Tanzania Phase II & III
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the Productive Social Safety Net Programme - Phase II & III, which will reach 1.3m households, which are the poorest 15%, with conditional cash transfers, and green public works. The programme aims to improve the resilience and opportunities of the extreme poor by reducing the depth of the income poverty, improving food consumption and increasing their resilience to climate-related shocks. FCDO will also support the Government of Tanzania to initiate a sustainable nationwide social protection scheme.
Support to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve agricultural productivity in developing countries and to increase farmers' access to markets whilst increasing the economic resilience of poor people globally
Shock Response Programme (SRP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The SRP will strengthen government systems in the Sahel so they can better anticipate and mitigate the impacts of severe shocks, including climatic shocks such as drought, that result in recurrent food insecurity. Effective since 2014 with an initial focus on the design and introduction of new foundational, national systems that respond to the impact of climate change, the programme will strengthen emerging government-led systems to be more robust and expand their reach. The programme will invest in early warning systems, strengthening access to climate data to detect deteriorating conditions earlier on, and it will build people’s resilience by helping them to increase and diversify their household income so they can better cope when shocks occur.
Building Resilience and Addressing Vulnerability to Emergencies (BRAVE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
BRAVE aims to strengthen community resilience to climate change and enhance the capacity of government institutions to deliver climate-resilient, inclusive, and shock-responsive services. The programme prioritises the needs of those most vulnerable to climate-related emergencies particularly women and girls, who face disproportionate risks by ensuring interventions are gender-sensitive and informed by robust analysis, including sex- and age-disaggregated data.
Strengthening the Health System and Provision of Essential Services in South Sudan (SHAPES)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide a government led effective health system that will deliver improved access to quality health services across ten states and three administrative areas in South Sudan with a specific focus on reducing maternal and child mortality.
Good Governance Fund (Phase 3) Eastern Neighbourhood: Supporting Governance and Economic Reform
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Good Governance Fund Phase 3 will deliver demand-led support to governance reforms that allow open societies and economies to flourish. The Good Governance Fund will focus on improving democratic and economic governance, primarily through strategically targeted technical assistance. The Good Governance Fund programme will deliver interventions on a flexible basis, based on identified needs and/or requests from government counterparts or civil society in beneficiary countries (Armenia, Georgia and Moldova) in support of governance and economic reforms. This will support delivery and seek to prevent/reverse democratic backsliding. The Good Governance Fund is part of an integrated portfolio of programmes operating in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate region and supports the delivery of four National Security Council strategies and the Integrated Review.
Support to Social Protection Programme 2 (SSPP2)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the Government of Mozambique to develop a bigger, better and more shock responsive social protection system. SSPP2 will help poor and vulnerable people meet their basic needs and cope better with crises through social protection. It will expand the Government of Mozambique’s social protection programmes to deliver more cash transfers to the most vulnerable. It will provide technical assistance to improve social protection programme delivery and value for money, making government programmes more efficient, effective and equitable. It will develop government capacity to respond to crises quickly and effectively through the national social protection system. The programme will leverage additional donor and government resources of about £70m per year. Ultimately, SSPP2 will support the creation of a sustainable, nationally owned system to redistribute revenues from gas that Mozambique is expected to start earning in the next decade.
Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Programme ( HARP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
In line with the G7 Famine Prevention Compact, Nigeria’s Humanitarian and Resilience Programme (HARP) will provide life-saving support to the most vulnerable and strengthen resilience, opening pathways to livelihoods. HARP will enhance overall effectiveness of the UN-led humanitarian response, including a focus on building Nigerian ownership.
Stability and Security Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Stability and Security Programme will work to build stability in Somalia. It will do so by deepening understanding of the core underlying causes and drivers of conflict and instability. It will address them in ways that help widen and deepen the political settlement (agreements between different political actors), at multiple levels, and help build resilience to conflict and violence when these political settlement processes inevitably come under stress.
South Sudan Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Programme (SSHARP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This Programme will save lives and alleviate poverty through providing live saving humanitarian assistance, strengthen protection and promote access to basic services to conflict affected population, rebuild resilience and protect the most vulnerable people particularly women, girls and people living with disability.
Enhancing Gender Outcomes through Social Services Systems Strengthening (Samartha)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will focus on improving the systems and capacity of local government to deliver its social service mandates with a specific focus on improving access to quality health and education services, especially by women, girls and excluded groups. This will be complemented with national policy support in the Health and Education sectors to ensure sector policies and resource allocations align to support Nepal in building responsive and resilient Health and Education systems.
Security and Justice Programme 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Security and Justice Programme (SJP) ultimately aims to help to enhance public safety in Nepal and improve people’s trust in a key institution: the police. It will contribute to increased responsiveness of security and justice providers, particularly gender-based violence (GBV) and increased prevention of GBV and wider public safety problems. Understanding and influencing different social and organisational norms will run through the whole programme to address the prevalence of violence against women and girls. The programme also has a particular focus on the organisational development of the Nepal Police, investigation capability, problem-solving community policing and better climate-resilient solar-powered infrastructure for service delivery, notably police women and children service centres (WCSCs).
Sudan Humanitarian Preparedness and Response (SHPR)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Sudan’s Humanitarian Preparedness and Response will contribute to reducing excess mortality and morbidity resulting from conflict, climate related hazards, disease outbreaks and economic shocks by: 1. Providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable people facing ongoing crisis, with a focus on protection services, cash transfers and community management of acute malnutrition. 2. Preparing for and responding to sudden crises and spikes in need through country-based contingency funds. A flexible internal crisis risk facility will strengthen UK preparedness to respond to major disasters in Sudan. 3. Strengthening the effectiveness of in-country humanitarian preparedness and response. A flexible Enabling Facility will provide third-party services and technical assistance to improve gathering and analysis of data on risks and needs and early warning systems, monitoring and accountability mechanisms, and a shift to locally led interventions.
St Helena Economic Development Investment Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Supporting economic development in St Helena through enhanced dialogue on policy reforms, infrastructure development and through harnessing private investment opportunities.
Commonwealth Veteran's Welfare Programme for ODA Eligible Countries
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide commonwealth veterans and their widows/widowers from ODA eligible countries, who worked for British Armed Forces before their countries gained independence, now living in poverty, with two meals a day through a 5 year cash transfer programme.
Tristan da Cunha Provision of Technical Assistance and Essential Infrastructure 2023 to 2026
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To enable the Administration of Tristan da Cunha to provide appropriate public services to meet the basic health, education, safeguarding and governance needs of the island community, through the provision of professional expertise and training.
Lebanon Humanitarian Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Lebanon Humanitarian Programme has three main objectives: i) address growing humanitarian needs across the country; ii) improve educational outcomes for the most vulnerable and marginalised out of school children in Lebanon; and iii) support more inclusive, sustainable, and accountable support systems for all vulnerable population groups. The LHP will provide critical and flexible humanitarian assistance to households across Lebanon, according to vulnerability rather than nationality. Recognising the need to ensure sustainability, the programme will also take a patient development approach as far as possible: providing technical assistance to support national systems and improve the efficiency of aid delivery.
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